Overview

• Modus Vivendis announced on August 13 that Alexandrova died from injuries sustained when an elk crashed through her car’s windshield on July 5 in Tver Oblast.
• She spent over a month in a coma at Moscow’s Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine before passing away on August 12.
• Her husband, Ilya, survived the crash and recalled that the impact left Alexandrova unconscious and their vehicle coated in blood.
• She married Ilya four months before the accident and rose to fame as first runner-up in Miss Russia 2017 before representing Russia at Miss Universe and pursuing modeling, television hosting and psychotherapy.
• Tributes from Modus Vivendis, the Miss Universe Organization and fans have celebrated her as a symbol of beauty, kindness and inner strength.